Bumble open sources AI tool ‘private detector’ that detects nudes

To combat the sending of unsolicited nudes online — known as cyber flashing — and make the internet safer place for everyone, the popular women-first dating app Bumble is open-sourcing its AI tool — Private Detector.

The new tool works by automatically blurring a potential nude image shared within a chat on Bumble. Users will be notified, and it is up to them to decide whether to view or block the image.

“Bumble’s Data Science team has written a white paper explaining the technology of Private Detector and has made an open-source version of it available on GitHub,” the company said in a blogpost.